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Thomas Bennett wrote:
> I am new to Bacula (moving from Yosemite which was acquired by another 
> company 
> in the middle of an local issue I was trying to resolve) and have just 
> yesterday got my recent installation of Bacula 2.4.4 working with PostgreSQL 
> 8.4.  I look today and there is already a major and bug fix release.  I only 
> have one full and one incremental backup of the backup server and these are 
> the only two backups I have.  So, rather than go through the upgrade process 
> shouldn't I just drop the database and  uninstall the old Bacula rather than 
> go through the recommended upgrade process.  I have the /etc/bacula directory 
> copied to an external drive so I won't lose my configurations.

You could do that, but you'd have to recreate the volume etc. The
upgrade process isn't very complicated. You just need to compile/install
the new version and run the update_bacula_tables script to have it
upgrade your database structure.

Greetings,
        Michel
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